12 Facts About Dan Nica

Dan Nica held a seat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Galati County from 1996 to 2014.

Dan Nica was born in Panciu, Vrancea County and in 1985 graduated from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi.

Dan Nica holds a 2005 doctorate in Communication Sciences, has co-designed three patented inventions, and authored the 2001 book Guvern, cetatean, societatea informationala.

In 1996, Dan Nica was elected to the Chamber for the PDSR ; he sat on the industry and services committee.

Dan Nica was re-elected in 2000, and was part of the Nastase cabinet until July 2004, when he was dismissed during a reshuffle.

Dan Nica was elected again in 2004, following which he became vice president of the information technology and communications committee.

Dan Nica sued for 1.5 billion lei in damages, but lost.

In January 2009, following the resignation of Gabriel Oprea and before Liviu Dragnea took office, Dan Nica was interim Interior Minister; when Dragnea resigned the following month, Dan Nica again took over the ministry, a scenario that was one of several options discussed within the PSD.

In late September 2009, Dan Nica alleged that all available buses had been rented for the first and second rounds of the upcoming presidential election, and that these would be used to transport voters to multiple polling stations so they could cast more than one ballot.

Dan Nica was elected one of the PSD's vice presidents in 2010.

Dan Nica's case was closed in 2018, as the 10-year statute of limitations had expired.

Dan Nica was returned to the European Parliament in 2019.